25 SEPTEMBER 1926, Page 15

GAS AND HEALTH [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Si

a,—The Smoke Abatement Conference recently held in Birmingham, and the- important articles on this subject which appear from time to time in your columns, make me hope that you will allow me to draw attention to the belief, fairly widely spread among householders, that baking in a gas-oven renders food, and especially meat, unwholesome ; and to ask whether any information is forthcoming on this aspect of the question ? Whether there is or is not any scientific basis for this belief, it is undoubtedly the reason why many continue to put up with the dirt and inconvenience of a kitchen range which burns raw coal.—I am, Sir, &c.,